ALTERED NUTRITION: LESS THAN BODY REQUIREMENTS VALIDATION OF A NURSING DIAGNOSIS (CANCER PATIENTS).
Contributors: Louisiana State University Medical Ctr. In New Orleans, S. Of Nursing.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Nutrition.
Description: This descriptive study used Diagnostic Content Validity and Clinical Diagnostic Validity models to validate the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis, Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements, among cancer patients. For the Diagnostic Content Validity model, 46 nurses were surveyed. Each nurse subject was at least master's prepared with oncology experience. Nurse subjects were asked to rate the representativeness of the defining characteristics for the nursing diagnosis, Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements, among cancer patients. For the Clinical Diagnostic Validity model, the sample consisted of 30 patients admitted to two major Jordanian hospitals. Subjects were cancer patients, who had been admitted for their second round of chemotherapy and who had been diagnosed as having Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements. Each subject was examined for the presence of the defining characteristics for that diagnosis by two master's prepared nurses within 24 hours of each other. Instruments for this study were two questionnaires developed by the investigator based on the literature review on the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis, Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements. This study helped differentiate defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis, Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements, into major, minor, and irrelevant defining characteristics. Results of this study, in combination with the results of three previous studies, resulted in the formulation of 3 major and 17 minor defining characteristics for the nursing diagnosis, Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01, Section: B, page: 0235.

Thesis (D.N.S.)--LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CTR. IN NEW ORLEANS, S. OF NURSING, 1995.

School code: 1053.